Private Citizens “Unmasked” by Obama For Political Purposes

Last week, Rep. Devin Nunes came forward and informed the public about information that corroborated part of President Donald Trump’s assertions about surveillance of his campaign by the Obama administration. On Friday, Fox News’ Adam Housley reported that intelligence sources have further confirmed the Obama administration’s politically motivated unmasking of names from intelligence documents to harm the Trump administration.

Our sources: This surveillance that led to the unmasking of private names of American citizens started before Trump was the GOP nominee.

In a video report on the story that aired today, Housley said his sources were motivated to come forward by a report at the New York Times yesterday which apparently outed two people who helped Rep. Devin Nunes access information during a meeting in the Old Executive Office Building. Housley’s sources claim the two people who helped Nunes “navigate” to the information were not his sources. In fact, Nunes had been aware of the information since January but had been unable to view the documents themselves because of what Housley’s IC sources describe as “stonewalling” by the agencies in question.

As Hot Air also pointed out, this new information and Nunes’ comments last week all come together.

“So, first, I recently confirmed that on numerous occasions the intelligence community incidentally collected information about U.S. citizens involved in the Trump transition,” Nunes said.

“Details about U.S. persons associated with the incoming administration, details with little or no apparent foreign intelligence value, were widely disseminated in intelligence community reporting.”

“Third, I have confirmed that additional names of Trump transition team members were unmasked,” Nunes said. “And fourth and finally, I want to be clear, none of this surveillance was related to Russia, or the investigation of Russian activities or of the Trump team,” he continued.

Gee, it sure would be nice if the government hacks were as concerned about the unmasking of private citizens’ names and the gross misconduct here as they are about hysterical allegations put forward by Democrats to deflect attention from their massive failures.

No dice. Apparently the left’s political games are more important than the privacy of the American people or the obvious reality that the previous administration (that was roundly repudiated in 2016) is undermining the current administration elected by the people.